Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — Farmers and the Tariff. [ARTICLE]

Farmers and the Tariff.

Free trade theorists cannot deceive intelligent and thinking i aimers, *ho read and study to a much greater extent than they general!}- get credit “or, anti are usually certain to arrive at a just conclusion whether in politics er in the jury box. The farmers know that no country was ever ruined by protection, aud that, before protection was established as an American policy, the states were industrially at the tnefey of Great Britain, just as. since the establishmeut of a tariff, the perods o$ greatest commercial depression Javc been when the tariff was-at its iowest. It has Veen shown to be not the fact that the farmer pays an enanced price for manufactured products on accourft of protection, while Le certainly receives, a higher price for ’’.s raw xuaferial entering into the i: anufacture of cloth and other goods. • - and ha' in the Nourishing manufacturing cities and villages a ready market provided for his corn, bis milk, his * and his pork, which but for < astern markets would „be almost , worthless on his hands, for Europe j coulSt not consume, and does not call for all the surplus products of the west, 1 ind Europe does not pay as good i ikes as the manufacturing districts of ’he east. To come nearer home—take *wSy the manufactures of Rhode Is-, 'and. and what would become of the Ehcdt Island farmer? He could live, ft is true; but he could not sell his Ldlk or vegetables, and sheep culture -would be unprofitable. fb£ their would *<? no factories to buy the wool, except » .coat!, and there he would has e to complete with Australia, and other 7.-eat -‘•ool-prodiicing <e*ions. In a ord; tkkre is do class more directly ind vitally iatereste-1 in the main-1 prince of a hiji'a tarift', and the pro**ctioh of American industry than the 1 Aomeri, whether tn t*fe west, th the faid&le states, or here ipNew England Jvurtiul. A j -rV .